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What is mindfulness? And do you know the benefits it can provide you? Here are 5 reasons why you should start practicing mindfulness right now.
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Students develop personal and social capability as they learn to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively. Personal and social capability involves students in a range of practices including recognising and regulating emotions, developing empathy for others and understanding relationships, establishing and building positive relationships, making responsible decisions, working effectively in teams, handling challenging situations constructively and developing leadership skills.
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Why teach Personal and Social skills?...'Students with well-developed social and emotional skills find it easier to manage themselves, relate to others, develop resilience and a sense of self-worth, resolve conflict, engage in teamwork and feel positive about themselves and the world around them. The development of personal and social capability is a foundation for learning and for citizenship.'
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The First Day Teaching Toolkit is mapped to the Australian Curriculum. It explores themes relevant to the Year 6/7 transition, including values, identity, resilience, friendships, and inclusivity. … First Day (2017) follows main char…
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The First Day Teaching Toolkit is mapped to the Australian Curriculum. It explores themes relevant to the Year 6/7 transition, including values, identity, resilience, friendships, and inclusivity. The learning tasks encourage inclusive behaviours in the classroom, and reminds students that we are all more alike than we are different. Curriculum Study Areas Critical and Creative Thinking, English, Health and Physical Education, Personal and Social Capability
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A full day Professional and Personal Learning, hosted by @KerryMuste and @AmieMeyer4 at Our Lady of the Cape PS Dunsborough, in the beautiful south-west wine region of Western A.ustralia.
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In case you missed it....here are all the highlights and links to resources from this wonderful day
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In a recent paper written by Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, she dives into the mental health of our current student
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What a sad reflection of our society, that students aged 6-18 are seeking more mental health services, and more medication. Perhaps we need to allow students more time to navigate their own learning and discoveries.
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Amanda Bailey explains how she teaches mindfulness skills in school to help staff and students manage stress and improve concentration
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A fabulous article that will resonate with most teachers (and students)..."Mindfulness is a skill that has to be practiced regularly and over the long term to realise the most benefit. The more we bring our mind into the present in a formal or informal way then the more we can train the mind to pay attention to all aspects of our life."
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A Social Media Story storified by Brett Salakas
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Part 2 of the Social and Emotional #aussieED chat this weekend. Some very insightful comments and useful resources.
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A Social Media Story storified by Brett Salakas
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Social Emotional Learning is a vital part of our role as educators. Here's Part 1 of a recent Twitter conversation #aussieED
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One thing I know from my work is that mindful children react differently to challenges. To show you exactly what I mean, I've created a few illustrations....
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Teaching children to react to situations with 'mindfulness' strategies is yet another social capability that parents and teachers should work on together...
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Skills, attitudes, and attributes come closest to what students need to learn. The learning that can be taken forward has to be grounded in concrete work being done by students which is meaningful in their immediate lives. Some of the skills on the list are less important than others and gain in importance over time. A key consideration is how to make them relevant in students' immediate work. What do administrative and clerical skills mean to a student? via Ivon Prefontaine
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Summary: This is the fourth lesson of a series of ice breaker lessons that you can use with a variety of different children/adolescents over the start of the new year. Ice breakers are great for encouraging cooperation, getting to know each other, feeling comfortable in a group environment and many, many more benefits. If you ...
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Take a walk through your building or workplace and attend to the feelings you have. No, not an actual walk -- a symbolic one. By so doing, you will learn a lot about the culture and climate of y
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How does your school culture rate?
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Play is nothing if not social. Games organize play, allowing us to wrangle it and use it to experiment with the world. When we play games, more often than not, it's us under the microscope.
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Worried about the shrinking presence of empathy in our schools? I know how you feel.
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Empathy is listed as one of the key concepts in AC History but also has a strong presence as a Personal and Social Capability in the Australian Curriculum http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/personal-and-social-capability/Continuum#page=3
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"Girl-boy friendships matter. They give kids a chance to explore themselves outside of constrictive gender scripts, and, ideally, question stereotypes,"...When parents and teachers approve of these relationships, they are sending their children the message that it's not only okay to play with another gender, but it is also okay to play like them."
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The accompanying list of Books about Boy-Girl Friendships', is an added bonus to this article. 'When we foster mixed-gender relationships, we show kids that we see the person first, not their gender. And, teaching them not to box people in with expectations based on gender is a valuable lesson throughout their lives: "Overall, the ability to see half of humanity in all their complexity is a major life asset," Strauss asserts, "professionally and personally."
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Recess time isn't just a break from school. It helps kids learn to be human.
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Play is so basic to childhood that it is seen even among children in the most dire conditions, in prisons and concentration camps. It is so important to the well-being of children that the United Nations recognizes it as a fundamental human right, on par with the rights to shelter and education.
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“It is literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about things that you don’t care about,” says the neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.
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Such important messages here...The emotional connection that can result when teachers make learning personally relevant to students is what differentiates superficial, rote, topical assimilation of material from a superlative education marked by deep mastery and durable learning. While there are no silver bullets in education, emotional engagement and personal relevance is the tool that has the potential to improve the educational experience of every child, in every school.
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Doing philosophy with children through children's literature.
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Doing philosophy with children is a great way to improve their verbal skills. They learn to listen carefully to other students, to formulate their own opinions in a clear manner, and even to defend their opinions against objections from their peers. Doing philosophy builds a real sense of community in the classroom and, at the same time, it aids in the individual intellectual development of your students. This website will help you do just that using popular children’s picture books.
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A growing body of research suggests that teaching really young kids how to recognize and express their feelings can help them into their adult lives.
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Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) program aims to assist early learners recognise and express their emotions.
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Educators are aware that social problems like poverty, unsafe neighborhoods, violence, and family trauma can affect how students learn when they come to schoo
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So many links here to the AC Personal and Social capability...all levels, all Learning Areas.
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Thom Markham offers a set of principles to help educators see beyond immediate reforms to the education system.
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Are we in danger of losing a generation of children to a world that, at the moment, cannot find its way forward without violence, conflict, and despair. It’s not just war and violence that threaten, but a crumbling of the infrastructure of good thinking. Fear is rapidly replacing hope—and that’s not a good formula for growing up whole.The news is particularly poignant as we transition into a new year, when much of the world aims to turn love and good will from slogans into reality. So here’s a question for educators to consider: How do teachers help heal the world in 2015 and beyond?
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Books about adversity. Teach children about resilience, strength , and empathy.
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A wonderful collection of picture books and novels that teach children about resilience, strength and empathy through stories that highlight the adversity of other children,.
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What is mindfulness? And do you know the benefits it can provide you? Here are 5 reasons why you should start practicing mindfulness right now.
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Mindfulness is increasingly important. Slowing down and being present in work and relationships is more challenging than ever. Teachers could use mindfulness and its practices to help in their work and in their relationships with students.
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Two schools are approaching a project about their own happiness in very different ways based on the context of their schools and lives.
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Over the last decade, increased attention has been paid to the social and emotional learning (SEL) needs of children.
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Global Education Database | This chart can change your mindset and unlock new learning opportunities
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The chart is based on Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck who talks about the power of our mindset as well as our beliefs around challenge. Just like how we learned to walk … there are many stumbles along the way. But to reach our potential and life the life we desire, it takes practice...and perseverance. We always have a choice. What mindset will you choose?
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Mindfulness is increasingly important. Slowing down and being present in work and relationships is more challenging than ever. Teachers could use mindfulness and its practices to help in their work and in their relationships with students.